 Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth^ and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,...  A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 11a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pagine
...perfectly enshrining the spirit in which the volunteers of 1914 and 1915 entered the trenches : Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Among the finest flowers of the post- War garden, besides those already mentioned, the names must be... | |
 | Emerson Pitt Harris, Mrs. Florence Harris Hooke, Florence Harris Hooke - 1923 - 404 pagine
...younger war poets is full of this spirit. Take these lines from a sonnet "Peace" by Rupert Brooke:15 Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love ! (&) The deeply religious man, notably the mystic, is caught up in much the same way so that he desires... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 706 pagine
...long watch you would keep; And I should sleep, and I should sleep! NINETEEN-FOURTEEN I — PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...old and cold and weary; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pagine
...And nobleness walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. PEACE RUPERT BROOKE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pagine
...dies. And in that Heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish. PEACE (19 U) Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...— Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary; 5 Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,... | |
 | 1923 - 976 pagine
...have been at peace too long.' That was the feeling that inspired the poetry of Rupert Brooke : Now God be thanked. Who has matched us with His hour....power To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. But one notes a significant change in the war poetry of the later years. It is marked not only by utter... | |
 | Herbert Sherman Gorman - 1923 - 282 pagine
...days were ended by the burning sun off Scyros, welcomed war and the chance that it afforded young men To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | Colin Clements - 1923 - 146 pagine
...PRESS "Everybody jar hooks." This is one of the Intcnakf.ii Library TO CAPTAIN BRUCE HOPPER " Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour. And caught our youth and wakened us from sleeping." CONTENTS Colin d, Paris .---.-.. Frontispiece PAGE ft PIERROT IN PARIS 11 r COLUMBINE 27 THE RETURN... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1926 - 330 pagine
...island must ever be shining with his glory that we buried there." POEMS 1911-1914 V-- I. PEACE Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love 1 Oh 1 we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
 | 1915 - 790 pagine
...laughter learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move. And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
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